Wüstenrot is a municipality in the
Mainhardt Forest with about 6,800 inhabitants, more than half of them in small incorporated villages. The village is the birthplace of the Wüstenrot Bausparkasse (Wüstenrot Building Society).
Geography
Location
Wüstenrot is in the forest in the southeast of the
district of Heilbronn in the
natural region of the
Swabian-Franconian Forest
The Swabian-Franconian Forest (german: Schwäbisch-Fränkischen Waldberge, also ''Schwäbisch-Fränkischer Wald'') is a mainly forested, deeply incised upland region, 1,187 km² in area and up to , in the northeast of Baden-Württemberg. It fo ...
. The River Rot runs through central Wüstenrot. Wüstenrot consists of the five
towns (and former municipalities) Wüstenrot, Finsterrot, Maienfels, Neuhütten, Neulautern and the abandoned village of Neuhütte in Joachimstal.
Neighbours
Neighboring cities and municipalities of Wüstenrot are (moving
clockwise, starting in the west) the towns of
Beilstein and
Löwenstein (both in Heilbronn),
Bretzfeld
Bretzfeld is a municipality in the Hohenlohe district, in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located east of Heilbronn
Heilbronn () is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, surrounded by Heilbro ...
(
Hohenlohe),
Mainhardt (
Schwäbisch Hall),
Großerlach
Großerlach is a municipality in the district of Rems-Murr in Baden-Württemberg in Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe aft ...
and
Spiegelberg (within
Rems-Murr-Kreis) and
Oberstenfeld
Oberstenfeld () is a municipality in the district of Ludwigsburg in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. It is located about 40 km north of Stuttgart.
Geography
Oberstenfeld is located in the upper Bottwar river valley. It lies in the northeast ...
(Prevorst district,
Ludwigsburg).
The community of Wüstenrot (as of 2006) has 4,971 inhabitants, 2,952 of which in the Wüstenrot proper.
Mayors
*1974–1990: Ernst Schlagenhauf
*1990–2006: Roland Awe
*2006–2014: Heinz Nägele
*since 2014: Timo Wolf
References
Heilbronn (district)
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